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The Brains of Hedge-Fund Operations - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
The Brains of Hedge-Fund Operations
Wall Street Journal
By JEN WIECZNER Of all the elite financial circles, hedge-fund titans may be the most exclusive—and some of the most tight-lipped when it comes to talking to the press. Hedge-fund heavyweights may invest in companies going public more often than they ...
Categories: Hedge Fund
Bill sets rules for risk management pools - The Union Leader
Bill sets rules for risk management pools
The Union Leader
By GARRY RAYNO CONCORD — The House Thursday without debate approved a bill to set parameters for how risk management pools, such as the Local Government Center, Primex and SchoolCare, may operate. The Local Government Center this past two weeks has ...
Categories: Risk Management
JPMorgan unit has $100 billion in securitized assets, structured debt: FT - Reuters
JPMorgan unit has $100 billion in securitized assets, structured debt: FT
Reuters
N) recently revealed $2 billion trading loss has built up more than $100 billion in positions in asset-backed securities and structured products, the Financial Times said on Thursday. The newspaper said this portfolio comprises the "complex, ...
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Categories: Structured Products
Key Void at Top for JP Morgan - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Key Void at Top for JP Morgan
Wall Street Journal
In addition, the executive put in charge of risk management for the Chief Investment Office in February had little experience in the subject at the time and is the brother-in-law of another top JP Morgan executive. Some current and former employees who ...
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Categories: Risk Management
Experts: Diversify capital markets - China Daily
Experts: Diversify capital markets
China Daily
By Wei Tian (China Daily) China should diversify its capital markets to allow there to be more investment products, such as blue-chip company bonds or high-yield bonds from smaller companies, and for investors with different levels of risk tolerance ...
Categories: Capital Markets
Financial sector speeding up risk assessment - FINCAD News
Financial sector speeding up risk assessment
FINCAD News
Financial professionals, now more than ever need on-demand-risk and are turning to risk technology to reach their business goals." At the same time, both groups noted a rising concern about the impact of derivatives regulation.
Categories: Risk Technology
American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust Adds Key Executive ... - MarketWatch (press release)
American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust Adds Key Executive ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Andy's extensive commercial real estate experience, particularly in debt capital markets and complex structured financial transactions, makes him an ideal candidate for this position," said Nicholas S. Schorsch, CEO of ARC Global.
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Categories: Capital Markets
American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust Adds Key Executive ... - MarketWatch (press release)
American Realty Capital Global Daily Net Asset Value Trust Adds Key Executive ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Previously, Mr. Winer spent 17 years at Credit Suisse/DLJ where his responsibilities included oversight responsibility for the pricing, hedging and execution of commercial securitized real estate debt along with the asset management of loan and ...
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Categories: Securitization
Ex-UKFI chief Cooksey joins hedge fund - Financial Times
Ex-UKFI chief Cooksey joins hedge fund
Financial Times
By Robin Wigglesworth in London Sir David Cooksey, the former chairman of UK Financial Investments, the vehicle that holds the government's stake in bailed-out banks, has joined the advisory board of Strategic Value Partners (SVP), a hedge fund, ...
Categories: Hedge Fund
Investment banking team of the Week: RBC Capital utilities - Financial News
Investment banking team of the Week: RBC Capital utilities
Financial News
The utilities team at RBC Capital Markets is Financial News's investment banking team of the week, after advising a consortium of investors - including units of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Munich Re - on a €3.2bn deal for a gas company owned ...
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Categories: Capital Markets
Risk Transparency Sets Execution Firms Against FCMs and Exchange - The Options Insider
Risk Transparency Sets Execution Firms Against FCMs and Exchange
The Options Insider
Yet the FCMs and exchange would sleep better at night if they had a bit more transparency into what the executing firms are doing with their algorithmic trading strategies. “We don't want enough information to reverse-engineer their strategy,” said ...
Categories: Algorithmic Trading
Risk Transparency Sets Execution Firms Against FCMs and Exchange - The Options Insider
Risk Transparency Sets Execution Firms Against FCMs and Exchange
The Options Insider
One piece of good news coming out of today's FIA Expo NY in midtown Manhattan is that most industry participants are on the same page when defining risk management. Conference panelist and Allston Trading CTO Peter Nabicht summed it up succinctly as ...
Categories: Risk Management
James Moore: Treasury lucked out with Northern Rock and now might have to ... - The Independent
James Moore: Treasury lucked out with Northern Rock and now might have to ...
The Independent
Bankers like to refer to this sort of thing as "financial engineering" but there is a more colourful Anglo-Saxon term that would be equally appropriate. The report also says it expects the taxpayer to ultimately recover all of the state funds injected ...
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Categories: Financial Engineering
JPMorgan unit has $100bn of risky bonds - Financial Times
CNBC.com
JPMorgan unit has $100bn of risky bonds
Financial Times
The unit at the centre of JPMorgan Chase's $2bn trading loss has built up positions totalling more than $100bn in asset-backed securities and structured products – the complex, risky bonds at the centre of the financial crisis in 2008.
JP Morgan unit has $100bn of risky bonds: reportBusiness Spectator
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Categories: Structured Products
Hedge Fund Roundup 5/17/2012 - ComplianceX
TheStreet.com
Hedge Fund Roundup 5/17/2012
ComplianceX
by Staff Writer on May 17, 2012 Hedge Fund All-Stars Appearing at Yankee Stadium [HedgeFundNet] Yankee Stadium seems like the perfect setting for a meeting of the hedge fund industry's heavy hitters. Turns out that will be the case Thursday when ...
Hedge Fund All-Stars Appearing at Yankee StadiumHedge Fund Net
Hot Biotech Stocks Traded by Hedge Funds in First QuarterTheStreet.com
HFMWeek Daily Snapshot - 17 MayHFMWeek (blog)
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Categories: Hedge Fund
Magnetar, Notorious Hedge Fund, Has Been In Trouble Many Times Before - Huffington Post
Wall Street Journal
Magnetar, Notorious Hedge Fund, Has Been In Trouble Many Times Before
Huffington Post
The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars' worth of risky deals called collateralized debt obligations, many of which failed spectacularly in the financial crisis. Magnetar, meanwhile, had taken positions that allowed the firm to profit ...
SEC looking at hedge fund as part of CDO inquiryReuters
SEC Probes Role of Hedge Fund in CDOsWall Street Journal
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Categories: Hedge Fund
Infoglide And BusinessForensics Partner For Fraud, Risk Management Solutions - Dark Reading
Infoglide And BusinessForensics Partner For Fraud, Risk Management Solutions
Dark Reading
Infoglide's IRE will serve as the identity resolution engine to enhance information intelligence and Social Network Analysis capabilities across BusinessForensic's suite of fraud detection and risk management products, which includes their flagship ...
Categories: Risk Management
Agiliance Automates Security Assessment Of Gov Cloud Services - Dark Reading
Agiliance Automates Security Assessment Of Gov Cloud Services
Dark Reading
May 15, 2012 - Agiliance®, Inc., the leading independent provider of Security and Operational Risk Management (SRM) solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) programs, today announced the release of the Agiliance Federal Risk and ...
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Categories: Operational Risk
Default Swaps in US at Year's High on Spain Bank Cuts - BusinessWeek
Moneycontrol.com
Default Swaps in US at Year's High on Spain Bank Cuts
BusinessWeek
By Sridhar Natarajan on May 17, 2012 A gauge of corporate credit risk rose to the highest level this year as Moody's Investors Service cut Spanish banks' credit ratings and on signs the US job market was making little progress.
17/05/2012Moody's downgrades four Spanish regionsExpatica Spain
Moody's downgrades 16 Spanish banksThe Australian
TEXT-Moody's cuts Spanish banks ratingsReuters
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Categories: Credit Risk
Lessons From a Hedge Fund Conference - BusinessWeek
Bloomberg
Lessons From a Hedge Fund Conference
BusinessWeek
There's a reason hedge fund managers don't have their own reality show They are not natural performers. During the talk by Dwight Anderson, the managing partner of Ospraie Management, a commodities-focused fund, snoring could be heard in the ...
Hedge-Fund Stars Come OutWall Street Journal
No big insights at "best ideas" hedge-fund eventReuters
Hedge fund managers reveal "best ideas" at eventCNBC.com
Wall Street & Technology -Hedge Fund Net -Benzinga
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Categories: Hedge Fund
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